Can't Buy Your Way

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Can't Buy Your Way
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Studio album by Northern Lights
Released 1991
Recorded 1991
Genre Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass
Length48:13
Label Flying Fish Records
Producer Bill VornDick, Northern Lights
Northern Lights chronology
Take You to the Sky
(1990)		Can't Buy Your Way
(1991)		 Wrong Highway Blues
(1994)
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Can't Buy Your Way is album by the progressive bluegrass band Northern Lights. [2]

Northern Lights (bluegrass band) American Progressive bluegrass band formed in 1975 in New England

Northern Lights was an American Progressive bluegrass band formed in 1975 in New England, which musical career spanned more than three decades. Known for a progressive style of bluegrass playing, the band went through a number of line-up changes through the years and included such personalities as Alison Brown or multiinstrumentalist Jake Armerding, son of founding member Taylor Armerding, who started playing with the band full-time at age of 14, but played occasionally when he was 12. As of 2009, there is no founding member left in the group. Guitarist Bill Henry, who joined the band in 1982 assumed the leadership role and Northern Lights continue to play without interruption as a quintet, consisting of two generation of musicians - Bill Henry, John Daniel and Alex MacLeod as well as young players Eric Robertson and Mike Barnett. The band has issued 10 studio and 1 live recording with Vassar Clemonts. Most of which are, unfortunately, out of print today. From 1990's "Take You to the Sky," to recently released One Day(Fifty-Fifty Music), the band has fused an eclectic mix of traditional roots music, rock, country, soul and gospel with the high, lonesome vocal sound and instruments of bluegrass. Three of their records also reached the top ten of Bluegrass Unlimited’s National Bluegrass Survey. The Northern Lights have decided to disband during early spring 2010. Their final show was on March 13, 2010 at Rose Garden in Mansfield.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Can't Buy Your Way (Armerding) 4:56
  2. My Only One (Mellyn) 3:57
  3. Lighthouse (Taylor) 4:13
  4. When the Time Had Fully Come (Armerding) 2:46
  5. September's End (Henry) 3:58
  6. Rainmaker (Nicholson, Rowan) 5:17
  7. City on a Hill (Armerding) 3:14
  8. Take You Back Again (Armerding) 3:14
  9. Heartache Tonight (Frey, Henley, Seeger, Souther) 3:03
  10. Shake This Feeling (Henry) 2:54
  11. Jubilation (Kropp) 4:11
  12. Anger and Tears (Chase, Smith) 3:42
  13. On the Edge (Armerding) 2:48

Personnel

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Matt Glaser American musician

Matt Glaser is an American jazz and bluegrass violinist. He served as the chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music for more than twenty-five years. He is now the founder and artistic director of Berklee's American Roots Music Program.

Vassar Clements American musician

Vassar Carlton Clements was a Grammy Award-winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions.

Stuart Duncan American musician

Stuart Duncan is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo.

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